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Why was Pelosi so angry? Maybe it was the fact that Trump is totally getting away with undermining the election. Or maybe it was all the lying.

The report cited two acts of improper conduct: withholding aid from Ukraine on the condition of investigating a rival, and obstruction of the inquiry.

These hearings have laid bare just how crippled the staff, systems and structures designed to protect our country really are.

Republicans needs to stay laser-focused on the goal: to show the American people that they, not Democratic politicians, should decide whether Trump leaves office.

There weren't any surprises. But Yovanovitch may have helped Democrats paint a bigger picture surrounding the White House's dealings in Ukraine.

If Trump is unhappy with how the impeachment process is unfolding, he has mostly Republicans to blame. After all, they are the ones who have written the rules that impeachment investigations follow.

The emerging strategy of House Republicans to argue that WH advisers went rogue — without the authorization of Donald Trump — to press Ukraine to provide dirt on a political opponent puts Mick Mulvaney, John Eisenberg, Rudy Giuliani and others in a precarious and even life-changing dilemma.

For years accused of being "gagged" by Turkey, a resolution adopted overwhelmingly by the US Congress to recognise the Armenian genocide goes beyond reacting to Turkish actions in northern Syria.

The decision by the US House of Representatives to pass legalisation tightening up the scrutiny of Hong Kong's autonomy from mainland China could mark a significant inflection point in the continuing impasse between the protestors there and the authorities in Beijing.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies before US Congress

Using the office of the president for personal political benefit comports with both the standard understandings of bribery and the broader category of high crimes and misdemeanors.

For President Donald Trump, maintaining his personal friendship with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — another right-wing leader with authoritarian tendencies — is seemingly more important than leading the charge against the disaster unfolding in Brazil.

A law mandating 12 "supercarriers" is too big a cost burden, while strategists worry that they are increasingly vulnerable to Russia and China.

The U.S. Treasury says it won't be handing over President Donald Trump's tax returns, making a legal battle likely.

The WikiLeaks founder was charged by U.S. officials with conspiring to hack into government computers.

While it is impossible to know what will come out of these requests, the [Cummings] letters offer some clues about what Trump officials can expect in 2019.

With Democrats about to take over the House Oversight Committee, White House corruption is going to take center stage.

This president is not going to be forced out of office because of infidelity. Congress has been down that road before — and it led nowhere.

Bill provides for 1.6 trillion dollars in tptal spending but nothing to replace DACA and only 1.2 billion to begin on the Mexican border wall.